Rust is coming to Git

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> The problem is that rust upstream failed to write a portable compiler. 
> And gcc does not yet have a working front-end.

perfect explanation. Or having recent rust on 10.11 MacOS, 10.6 or even 
PPC wouldn't be a problem.
gcc could be very promising there.


>
> It is also a bit ridiculous to require LLVM and Rust just to build git.

indeed. Rust has a lot of other shortcomings, trying to reinvent the 
wheel; but not the point of this tread, I guess.

Riccardo